{"id":348540,"date":"2025-12-15T00:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T00:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/348540\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T00:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T00:56:10","slug":"injuries-key-matchups-and-what-to-watch-in-week-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/348540\/","title":{"rendered":"Injuries, key matchups and what to watch in Week 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"2d\">McCarthy, the Vikings&#8217; first-year starting quarterback, committed 11 turnovers in his first six games. Last week showcased a change \u2014 his first turnover-free game in the NFL. <\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"2g\">McCarthy completed a career-high 69% of his passes in last week&#8217;s win against Washington and three touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"2j\">&#8220;He deserves this type of game. Just the hard work that he\u2019s been putting in, and the criticism,&#8221; receiver Justin Jefferson said. &#8220;He\u2019s a young quarterback. I don\u2019t think people really understand that. They forget he didn\u2019t really play last year. This is his first year really playing. There are going to be times when there\u2019s adversity. Things might not look the greatest, but his keeping on and bouncing back was great.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McCarthy, the Vikings&#8217; first-year starting quarterback, committed 11 turnovers in his first six games. Last week showcased a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-348540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}